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Example sentences for: curiosity

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This is made clear to me every time someone discovers that I am a “word man”--that I am an editor on the Dictionary of American Regional English and write a column about word histories in the Atlantic . Inevitably, I am presented with a favourite lexical curiosity and asked where it came from.
Our interest and curiosity about Egypt is, it seems, insatiable.
Some are interesting and have a curiosity value ( spaneria `a scarceness of men'), others, if learnt, would present some difficulties in fitting into most conversations ( umber `sundial pointer's shadow').
At the southern tip, half hidden in the trees, is Schinkel’s Swiss Cottage, but the island’s principal curiosity is the fake ruin Schloß Pfaueninsel, built in 1797 as a hideaway for Friedrich Wilhelm II and his lover, the Countess Wilhelmine von Lichtenau.
Although the jacket copy is appropriately dignified, twenty lashes to whoever wrote the release accompanying the book, which cites its appeal to “trivia buffs and curiosity seekers,” rather a down-market crowed compared to the higher echelons of literati to whom Adrian Room's books usually appeal.